a bunch of people reporting 500's on this site when they try to join. did infosec twitter break mastodon??
probably more due to french people than infosec
@bcrypt what did the French do?
@bcrypt I think it was likely infosec twitter that broke Mastodon. I'm pretty happy folks are getting into GNU Social but at the same time kind of disheartening and I'm concerned folks don't actually know what they're getting into.
@bcrypt happened to me as well
@bcrypt Time to start getting serious about the whole "federation thing" it seems. Seems like social.cyphar.com will have to be a thing now. :wink:
@bcrypt I can barely get the page to refresh without something erroring out.
@bcrypt it was also a top link on lobste.rs, which led me here (although I imagine that traffic is a lot lower). Also, hi yan!
@bcrypt We may have! At least I can now see you on my maly.io account, where I want you. :grinning:
@bcrypt I couldn't follow you for an hour, and I still get lots of weird and sudden errors, pretty confusing for a first time experience (not to mention self-hosted setup)
@bcrypt fortunately there's federation! My node is running fine!